Table and chair structure



TABLE AND CHAIR STRUCTURE Filed June 25. 1927 2 Sheets-She'et 1 SYM/1g@ TTOR EY Nov. 6, 1928.

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i TABLE AND CHAIR STRUCTURE.

Application filed June 25, 1927. Serial No. 201,321.

This invention relates to a table and chair structure, and it has for its primary object to provide a table having associated therewith one or more chairs and means whereon said chairs may readily be swung to and `from bodily supported positions beneath said table.

A further object is to structurally improve and simplify the devices disclosed in my prior Patents Nos. 958,529 and 1,473,736, dated May 17, 1910, and November 13, 1923, respectively.

In describing the invention in detail, reference is herein had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View of the invention partly in side elevation and partly in section;

Figure 2 is a detail view illustrating in elevation the upright support;

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail section taken Substantially on line 3i-3, Fig. 1;

Figure 4 is a similar section taken substantially on line 4 4, Fig. 3;

Figure 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the hinge-like supporting member; and- Figure 6 is a face view of the leg carried pivot plate.

Referring to said drawings, 1 designates the top and 2 the supporting legs of a table which carries centrally on the under side of said top a depending post-like support 3. This support is herein shown as terminating at a considerable height above the level of the `floor upon which the table legs seat, but,

manifestly, it may have the iorm of a center leg for the table. Y

Rigidly mounted on one side, or on each ol opposite sides, of said support 3 are vertically alined brackets 4 between which are received vertically aligned eye portions 5 formed on a hinge-like support 6, and a pivot pin or pintle is directed vertically through said eye portions 5 and therewith registering eyes provided in said brackets. Pivotally mounted upon the lower end of said support 6 is the end of an arm 8 formed upon an end of, and at substantially a right angle to, one of two relatively slidable, or telescopically related, bar` sections 10 and 11. The outer end of the bar section 11 is rigidly attached to a bar 12 at a point midway between the ends of the latter. Said bar 12, which is of Uhshape, has its ends pivotally mounted upon the front legs 13 of a chair, al plate 14 attached to the side of each ci said legs having formed thereon a pivot-pin 15 upon which said bar-ends are received.

The hinge-like support 6 has formed on the upper end thereof a short outwardly extending arm 16 to which is attached an end of a'retractile coil spring 17 which has its opposite end attached to the bar section 10 at or adjacent to the angle between the latter and the arm 8. In the normal seated position of the chair, the arm 8 is disposed in vertical alignmentwith the body of the support 6, and the spring 17 occupies a vertical position closely adjacent to said members, as shown in broken lines in Fig 4. Obviously, the force exerted by said spring, occupying said position, is impotent to produce relative movement of said parts 6 and 8. However, when the chair is elevated sufliciently to dispose said parts out of alinement, said spring exerts a force which tends to elevate the tel- Vescoping bars and the chair toward the posi tion shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4.

The chair is moved to and from its elevated position under the table as in my said Patent No. 1,473,736, and is releasably supported in said position by `a resilient latchlike member 18 which extends horizontally in an outward direction from the support 3 and which is adapted to be sprung into and out of' latched relation to the bar 12 for rigidly supporting the chair.

What is claimed is- The combination with a table and a chair, of a fixed support carried by and depending from the under side of the table top, brackets carried by said support adjacent to its lower end. a vertically disposed hinge-like supporting member pivotally mounted on each bracket, said member having an outwardly directed arm at its upper end. a pair of telescopically related bar sectionswhereon said chair may be supported in an elevated posit1on,one of said sections having pivotal conn ection with said chair` the other of said sections havinga terminal arm disposed at a right angle thereto, said terminal arm being pivotally attached to the lower end of said supporting member and being adaptedi in the lowered position of said sections, to occupy vertically alined relation to said member,

and retmetile coil spring having one end attached to the aii'n of Vsaid supporting iiieiiibei' and the other end attached to the last mentioned bar section at a, point-adjacent to the angle bet-Ween Said section and its arm, whereby, when said last mentioned arno is positioned in vertically failinekd relation t0 said Support ing member, saidY spring is elements.

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